Forest Glen; or, The Mohawk's FriendshipKellogg, Elijah
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Forest Glen; or, The Mohawk's Friendship
Kellogg, Elijah
Frontier and pioneer life -- Juvenile fiction; Quakers -- Juvenile fiction
Among the savages who captured Honeywood, was one who had often been
to the shop of Clavell in Baltimore, of whom the captive had learned
his trade; and he had several times repaired the rifle and traps of
this savage free of charge, and invited him to spread his blanket on
the hearth. On the march this savage showed much kindness to his former
benefactor, often gave him food from his own store that was scanty,
and would probably have aided him to escape if he could; but the day
before they reached their place of destination, a Delaware encampment
in the territory of the Six Nations, he told Honeywood, evidently with
sorrow, that his people would burn him, because he had struck them very
hard, and killed many of their young men, and was a great brave. He
then exhorted him to be strong, and to let it be known, by the courage
with which he endured the torture, that he was a great warrior.
Thrown upon the world in childhood, the mind of Honeywood was of the
firmest texture, and he had often been called to face death. But he was
in the prime of early manhood, a loving, kind-hearted man; and it was
bitter to die under such horrible tortures as savage ingenuity alone
could devise. He thought of his home, the acres he had toiled so hard
to win and defend; his wife and little ones; his neighbors, young men
and children, respecting whose improvement, both mental and moral, he
had cherished so many hopes, and devised so many plans to be carried
into effect when the Indian war should end, of which there was now a
probability.
Honeywood was not only a man of iron nerve and unflinching courage,
but he was a good man: he lived in constant intercourse with God. In
his boyhood, while one of the household of Henry Clavell, he had been
deeply interested in religious truths.
The instructions of Mrs. Raymond, a Quakeress, and the housekeeper
of his master, had fallen upon willing ears and a tender conscience;
and the great sorrow of his youth, the death of his benefactor, had
completed the work; and from his Father in heaven he sought for
strength to die, not with the sullen stoicism of the red man, but with
the faith and resignation of a Christian.
His wounds were now healed, and his strength restored; his captors,
having treated his injuries with great skill, fed him upon the best of
provisions, game being plenty, and treated him with all the kindness
consistent with safe-keeping. The war-parties sent out in different
directions had come in, as also the fugitives who had escaped from
Armstrong at Kittanning.
One of those parties brought with them two white captives,--one a
Scotchman by the name of McAlpine, and the other a German, Luke
Bogardus,--and a great number of scalps.
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